Today the Civitas Institute begins releasing our “20 Changes for 2010: A Primer for State Reform.” Here’s a slice of the introduction: A majority of North Carolina voters believe state government is failing them. According to Civitas Institute January 2010 polling results, 54 percent of likely voters believe that the state is on the “wrong [...]
Miscellaneous Archives
- 1Feb05
Best Campaign Picture For Bob Etheridge
No need to photoshop it, no need to alter it in any way. Just make sure every voting member of the 2nd district has the following picture in their mind by election day. This image and his support of government run healthcare, cap and trade, bailouts and the litany of issues that are at odds [...]
- Jan29
Watch Your Tax Dollars At Work… Literally.
A webcam streaming live from Basnight’s $25 million fishing pier in Nags Head is now up and running. Check it out here, hosted by the Division of N.C. Aquariums. For just $3,000, the web camera, cabling and software was purchased by the Aquarium Society and linked to the existing state-funded N.C. Aquariums web site. Be [...]
- Jan27
Economics for the Next Generation
The Mercatus Center and George Mason University Professor Russ Roberts along with filmmaker John Papola have created a rap video about the economic crisis – Fear the Boom and Bust. How does one convey the importance of the battle of ideas that have steered economic policy for decades? More importantly, how do we make it [...]
- Jan25
NC College Women Challenge Radical Feminism
Conservative women from three universities unite to host political writer and speaker Mary Katharine Ham to discuss, “New Wave Feminism: Girl Power without Government.” On Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7:00 pm the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) will host Mary Katharine Ham at Meredith College in Ledford Rm. 101 to challenge university women to reclaim [...]
- Jan20
An Update From NCICL
This is a recent update on the ongoing incentives debacles across our great state from the NC Institute of Constitutional Law. $100,000 in additional incentives has been approved for Innovative Emergency Management (IEM) by commissioners in Durham County on January 11th. The company has also been granted a $150,000grant from the state’s One North Carolina Fund and [...]
- 1Jan19
Himalayan Glaciers NOT Melting After All. . .
It is nice that debates are starting to occur on the matter of man made climate change. For the past decade such debates have largely not existed. Two points here: 1) Debates about climate change are healthy and might actually lead to greater scientific truths and understanding and 2) We might well move away from [...]
- Jan19
An Obama Year In Review
Courtesy of Breitbart, these are some interesting numbers from the Obama Administration’s first year in action. 7,949.09—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 20, 2009. 10,609.65—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 15, 2010. 13 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of January 2009. 14.7 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as [...]
- 8Jan13
More Economic Ignorance From NC’s Faithful Government Lapdog
One of North Carolina’s leading authoritarians and government mouthpieces once again further marginalizes himself with his dogmatic faith in Keynesian economics. He takes umbrage with a recent blog post of mine that highlights the federal “stimulus” plan’s inability to create jobs. In his article, he cites a few studies, including one by the Congressional Budget [...]
- Jan07
State Senator Soles Indicted
UPDATE: Grand jury indicts Sen. Soles on assault charges. An earlier Grand Jury had found probable cause to indict, now it’s he must turn himself in to the courthouse. From WRAL: Whiteville, N.C. — A Columbus County grand jury on Thursday indicted state Sen. R.C. Soles in connection with an August shooting at his Tabor [...]
- 1Jan06
Climate Updates
All of the following links (and far, far more) are available at Climatedepot.com. But a sampling reveals an interesting situation with respect to climate alarmists. Let us recall that we’re paying $50 more per year, per power customer because of the General Assembly’s response to Climate Change with SB3. Over 1200 new cold and snow [...]
- Jan06
NC’s Unemployment Remains in Top Ten in Nation
New unemployment numbers are out, showing that North Carolina’s jobless rate stood at 10.8 in November. NC remains in the top ten, coming in with the 9th highest unemployment rate in the nation. More details on NC’s unemployment numbers from the News 14 story: …60 of the state’s 100 counties saw an increase in unemployment [...]
- Dec30
Cold, Really, Really Cold Forecast. . .
Brutal cold is being predicted by one of the most accurate meteorologists in the nation, Joe Bastardi from Accuweather. From his blog on Dec. 25th. “What is facing the major population centers of the northern hemisphere is unlike anything that we have seen since the global warming debate got to the absurd level it is [...]
- 1Dec16
New Solar Plant Going Online In NC, $$$$$$$
SunEdison, an out of state company, is building a solar energy farm near Lexington, NC. The plant is taking advantage of all sorts of new benefits doled out by the legislature. This story has so many interesting components I’m not entirely sure how to lay it out. 1) A new solar facility that will produce [...]
- Dec16
A Common Sense Approach To Global Problems
James Randi has long been a skeptic and a fantastic magician. He’s even featured once in a while on the podcast “The Skeptics Guide To The Universe.” He’s long been a critic of UFOs, Bigfoot, parapsychology and other shadow sciences, including Global Warming. He recently battled cancer, but has still put forth a great deal [...]
- Dec15
Flipper Opposes Global Cooling
From the Cape Cod Times comes this rather interesting headline. Winter weather increases dolphin, turtle strandings Truth is, more animals die from exposure to cold than to heat, more animals flourish in heat than in cold. Here’s more from the actual story. The high tides, strong winds and now bitter cold have combined to make [...]
- Dec14
Scary Thought Of The Day
Discover magazine is one of my favorite science journals. Despite their complete and utter abandonment of science with respect to Global Warming, they still have some great material. In their special “Year In Science” issue they review the top 100 science stories of 2009. #26 is an interview with J. Craig Vetner, who launched the [...]
- Dec11
Breaking News! Massive Global Warming Protest
In consideration of the Copenhagen Cabal, Climategate and the current temperatures in North Carolina, I felt compelled to repost this photo (which, incidentally, was one of the most read posts on our blog the last time it ran). Too bad for the believers of the Global Warming religion that every time they have a big [...]
- Dec11
Correlation out with the storm
I recently submitted a letter to the editor taking issue with this N&O article. The Dec. 7 column, “Warming Woes and the World’s Women” argues that women are most affected by global climate change because women represent the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line and bear a “disproportionate burden” when natural disasters [...]
- 1Dec08
Business Experience in the Obama Cabinet
If you’re wondering why it seems that the Obama Administration truly doesn’t understand how the free market works or why it thinks that we can simply spend our way out of a bad market, you need look no further than the make-up of the personnel on his team. In the past 110 years, we have [...]